SPECIAL TOPICS AND LINKS

Compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr.

• A LACK OF EVIDENCE - Blacks did not fight for the South....... (Newspaper Column)
   
• A PRIMER ON BLACK TROOPS IN THE AMERICAN WEST
   
• A VOICE FOR BLACK SOLDIERS - (5 pages)
   
• ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS - PART 1 Afro-British North Americans
   
• ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS - PART 2 Afro-British North Americans
   
• BATTLE OF FORT PILLOW (April 12, 1864) - Official Records
   
• BATTLE OF MILLIKEN'S BEND - (Revised and updated: July 21, 2000)
   
• BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI
   
• BLACK CIVIL WAR SAILORS
   
• BLACK CODES IN THE FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES
   
• BLACK MEMORIAL DAY TRADITION IN VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI or...................
   
• CAMP NELSON, KENTUCKY
   
• CAMP WILLIAM PENN'S BLACK SOLDIERS IN BLUE
   
• CAPTURE OF CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS
   
• CHRISTINE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY/CIVIL WAR WEBSITES
   
• CIVIL WAR BOOKS
   
• COLONEL R. D. MUSSEY'S REPORT - COMMISSIONER FOR ORGANIZATION OF U. S. COLORED TROOPS - - Nashville, Tennessee, October 10, 1864
   
• COLORED MEN AND THEIR RELATION TO THE MILITARY SERVICE, AS ESTABLISHED BY LAWS AND ORDERS DURING THE LATE WAR, AND THEIR RECRUITMENT AS SOLDIERS
   
• CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA'S PLAN TO PUT SLAVES IN THE TRENCHES
   
• CORPS DE AFRIQUE
   
• DEALING WITH SLAVERY
   
• DECLARATION OF CAUSES OF SECEDING STATES - Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas
   
• DID BLACKS TYPICALLY SERVE AS CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS?
   
• ENGINEERS - Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth, Ninety-seventh, Ninety-eighth, and Ninety-ninth U.S. Infantry (colored)
   
• EXPEDITION FROM VICKSBURG TO YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI AND SKIRMISH AT BIG BLACK BRIDGE (NOVEMBER 27, 1864), AND ACTION AT CONCORD CHURCH (DECEMBER 1, 1864)
   
• FORREST'S RAID INTO NORTHERN ALABAMA AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
  Report of Col. Wallace Campbell, One hundred and tenth U.S. Colored Infantry.
   
• FREEDMEN, THE FREED SLAVES OF THE CIVIL WAR
   
• GREAT GALLANTRY OF THE NEGRO TROOPS AT MILLIKEN'S BEND
   
• HISTORY OF CAPTAIN W. W. McCARTY'S PRISON LIFE, AND SOUTHERN PRISONS
   
• LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS
   
• MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN BUTLER'S LETTER TO SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES
   
• MAJOR GENERAL W.T. SHERMAN - HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, In the Field, Savannah, January 12, 1865.
   
• MAJOR GENERALS JOHN C. FREMONT AND DAVID HUNTER VERSUS PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
   
• MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW
   
• MILLIKEN'S BEND - WEBSITE - Honoring the Contributions of Black Soldiers during the Civil War
   
• MINUTES OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE COLORED MINISTERS AND CHURCH OFFICERS AT SAVANNAH WITH THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND MAJOR-GENERAL SHERMAN
   
• NEEDED MYTH: THE CREATION OF BLACK CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
   
• NORTHERN WING OF THE REBELLION
   
• ONE OF THE MOST DARING AND HEROIC ACTS OF THE CIVIL WAR - Third U. S. Colored Cavalry Regiment
   
• ORGANIZATION OF UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
   
• RECONSTRUCTION - POST CIVIL WAR
   
• REPORT - SKIRMISH AT ISLAND MOUND, MISSOURI - NOTE: First engagement by Colored Troops - October 29, 1862
   
• SKIRMISH AT ISLAND MOUND, MISSOURI - October 28, 1862
   
• SLAVERY IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA
   
• SLAVERY, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, CIVIL WAR IN DELAWARE AND MARYLAND
   
• SERVING THE UNION: U.S. COLORED TROOPS IN THE RETREAT TO APPOMATTOX
   
• THE SOUTH'S NEGRO REQUIREMENT
   
• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND THE CIVIL WAR
   
• THIRD DIVISION, TWENTY-FIFTH ARMY CORPS
   
• TWENTY-FIFTH UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS
   
• UNCLAIMED CIVIL WAR MEDALS - 45th USCT
   
• UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE MOBILE, ALABAMA CAMPAIGN - Reports - March 31-April 9, 1865
   

• WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO's United States Colored Civil War Soldiers and Sailors and  Officers Who Served in the United States Colored Troops
   

• WHITE LIES --A leading Civil War historian debunks many of the myths of the old South being circulated by neo-Confederate ideologues

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